Sideshow Murders

When Sherman McCrary met Carl Taylor, they quickly formed a wicked partnership. The father and son-in-law started writing bad checks together to support their families. But then checks gave way to guns and these small time criminals developed a sweet tooth for donuts and death. With their wives and children by their sides, they travel all over the country robbing grocery stores and engaging in a series of horrific rapes and murders. Nothing seems too sadistic for this clan of killers. It takes nearly two years before police are able to finally catch them and unveil one of the deadliest families in U.S. history. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Residents in a small working-class suburb of Indianapolis knew to stay away from the Reese home. Growing up, four of the Reese children terrorized the neighborhood, but their father Paul Reese was the real evil. He was a drug user and had served time in prison for attempted murder. When a 13-year-old girl named Dawn Stuard disappears and is found strangled to death not far from the Reese home, all eyes focus on this family of criminals. Detectives believe one of them took the young girl's life, but after several months the case goes cold. It will take more than twenty years and a string of murders before the dark and deadly secret is finally revealed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Carl and Billy Isaacs, and half-brother Wayne Coleman, were born into a home of poverty and neglect. Without parental restrictions, the brother's ran wild and spent their formative years in and out juvenile detention. By adulthood, Carl and Wayne were convicted felons, serving time in the same prison, but the bars couldn't hold them. After escaping, the fugitives are reunited with younger brother Billy. Unrestrained and without conscience, this band of brothers cuts a bloody and violent path down the east coast in a 12-day crime spree that ends with the most brutal murders the state of Georgia has ever seen. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brothers Reginald and Jonathan Carr were the product of a childhood filled with toxic influences. Alcohol, violence and sexual activity were routine in their daily lives even as children. These little boys taking on big man responsibilities led to a reckless lifestyle governed by their own twisted rules. After Reginald serves time in jail, the brothers partner up and head west to Wichita in search of easy sex and money. Their crimes continue to escalate, finally culminating in a heinous night of robbery, sexual torture, and gut wrenching violence that claims several innocent lives, and is now forever known as the "Wichita Massacre." Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brookey Lee West and her mother Christine Smith have always been at odds. At a young age, Brookey saw her mother go to jail for attempted murder leaving her alone with her Satanist father. As an adult, Brookey became a successful businesswoman, but she could never quite quit Christine. The two followed each other in and out of strange relationships and even stranger schemes. Soon, the pair moves to Vegas, and it isn't long before Christine goes missing. Brookey tells everyone she's put her mother in a nursing home, but this mother/daughter couple are more alike than anyone knows and there's only room for one. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the Stiles family, destiny was determined at birth. A rare birth defect called ectrodactyly has been passed down from generation to generation. However, the family has learned how to turn misfortune into profit in the strange world of the traveling carnival sideshow. Taking the spotlight on stage as the "Lobster Family", the family's trademark show draws in the crowds, but the most unsettling thing about them isn't their appearance, but what goes on after the curtain has fallen. Backstage, a dark existence of domestic violence, alcohol abuse, and shocking crimes binds this family together, before ripping them apart for good. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Matthew and Tyler Williams were raised in their parents' own version of the Garden of Eden where they were raised according to the Book, and grew their own food as a family. But their life was far from perfect. Their eccentric father was extreme in his religious beliefs and his children were expected to follow in his footsteps. As Matthew and Tyler grow older their views become more outrageous. They soon make it their mission to rid the world of sinners and "the unclean." And with blood on their hands, the brothers say it was the Bible that made them do it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When the Bender Family moves west to open a tavern and inn along the Osage Trail in southeastern Kansas, the people of nearby Cherryvale are at first unaware of the diabolical plans this mysterious family is cooking up behind closed doors. The intoxicatingly beautiful daughter Kate uses her sex appeal, charm, and rumored supernatural powers to lure westward bound homesteaders back to her family's little house on the prairie, where the family commit a series of ghastly crimes together. And they get away with it. It seems that way out in the Old West, no one can hear you scream. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Growing up as Jehovah's Witnesses in the small town of Salisbury, PA, Bryan and David Freeman were forbidden from celebrating holidays and making friends outside of their religion. When Brian and David become teenagers, they forsake their parent's rules and religion and find a new family Neo-Nazi skinheads who preach violence and hate. They shave their heads and instill fear in everyone around them, including their own family. It isn't long before the Freeman brothers are out for blood, and for those closest to them their days are numbered. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Terry King always wanted to be a good father to his two sons, Derek and Alex, but the family is destroyed when Terry dies in a mysterious fire and the boys go missing. Before it's over, a world of lies, deceit and a shocking murderer will be revealed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.